>>> And thus situated, should he offer greater free-
     doms, must you not forgive him?

         I fear nothing (as I know who has said) that
     devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do against a
>>> virtue so established.*—­But surprizes, my dear, in
     such a house as you are in, and in such circum-
     stances as I have mentioned, I greatly fear! the
>>> man one who has already triumphed over persons
     worthy of his alliance.

>>> What then have you to do, but to fly this house,
     this infernal house!—­O that your heart would let
     you fly the man!

>>> If you should be disposed so to do, Mrs. Towns-
     end shall be ready at your command.—­But if you
     meet with no impediments, no new causes of doubt,
     I think your reputation in the eye of the world,
>>> though not your happiness, is concerned, that you
     should be his—­and yet I cannot bear that these
     libertines should be rewarded for their villany with
     the best of the sex, when the worst of it are too
     good for them.

But if you meet with the least ground for
suspicion; if he would detain you at the odious
house, or wish you to stay, now you know what
>>> the people are; fly him, whatever your prospects
are, as well as them.

In one of your next airings, if you have no other
>>> way, refuse to return with him.  Name me for your
intelligencer, that you are in a bad house, and if you
think you cannot now break with him, seem rather
>>> to believe that he may not know it to be so; and
that I do not believe he does:  and yet this belief
in us both must appear to be very gross.

But suppose you desire to go out of town for the
air, this sultry weather, and insist upon it?  You
may plead your health for so doing.  He dare not
>>> resist such a plea.  Your brother’s foolish scheme,
I am told, is certainly given up; so you need not
be afraid on that account.

    If you do not fly the house upon reading of this,

or some way or other get out of it, I shall judge of
his power over you, by the little you will have over
either him or yourself.

>>> One of my informers has made such slight inquiries
     concerning Mrs. Fretchville.  Did he ever name
     to you the street or square she lived in?—­I don’t
>>> remember that you, in any of your’s, mentioned the
     place of her abode to me.  Strange, very strange,
     this, I think!  No such person or house can be
     found, near any of the new streets or squares, where
     the lights I had from your letters led me to imagine
>>> her house might be.—­Ask him what street the
     house is in, if he has not told you; and let me
>>> know.  If he make a difficulty of that circumstance,
     it will amount to a detection.—­And yet, I think,
     you will have enough without this.